Leave it to Nikki Finke to chastise the impure, start firefights with other journalists (cf: The New Yorker), and leak out a bit of personal correspondence to boot. In an unrelenting post, she accuses Bill Carter of “having [never] met a network boss whose knob he didn’t shine” and casually makes mention of a (possibly joky) email Carter sent her in July about his hopes of making bank on a blowout Jay Leno show. How’s that going, btw?

Yesterday Sharon Waxman “exclusively” reported on Comcast’s plans to buy NBC-Universal from GE. Rival blogger Nikki Finke, who doesn’t like letting a Hollywood exclusive slip past her if she can help it, fired back that “Comcast tonight is denying an Internet blog’s bullshit that a “deal was done” (and the blog has already backtracked from that inaccurate claim).” She wouldn’t even name or link to The Wrap! But it looks like the facts (and the Internet) are on Finke’s side.

That is today’s topic of interest for Gawker investigations editor John Cook, who this morning delivered a hilarious rundown of the well-documented unreliability of Deadline Hollywood Daily‘s Nikki Finke. Fine for a self-employed blogger, but will sick days cut it under new management?

Many of the news outlets which reported that Disney was buying Marvel noted that the deal was worth $4 billion, tacked on a few Disney-Marvel mashup jokes,(“Spider Mickey,” etc.) and left it at that. Fortunately, Nikki Finke‘s Deadline Hollywood Daily has been on the scene, netting exclusive after exclusive and combining superb, deep-digging reporting with insightful commentary.